A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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